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Manuel Muñoz Rivas – El mar nos mira de lejos AKA The Sea Stares at Us from...
The legend of an ancient and forgotten civilization lies buried beneath a large expanse of dunes. For more than a century, certain travelers have reached this remote and desolate territory looking for...
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Luis López Carrasco – El futuro AKA The Future (2013)
Synopsis: El futuro opens with the news, over a black background, of Felipe González’s recent electoral victory in 1982. A preamble before the camera moves into the heart of a party. However it only...
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Joaquín Jordà & Julián Marcos – Dia de muertos (1960)
The first was filmed on the Day of the Dead at Madrid’s Almudena cemetery. Leaving the grounds, the police intercepted the producers. Part of their recordings was purposely blurred so as to not be...
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José Luis Guerín – Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia (2007)
An unnamed young man arrives in the foreign city of Strasbourg for reasons unstated. He waits at a hotel, visits a café, sketches passersby… Eventually his motives are revealed, but it is not a...
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Elena Martín – Júlia ist (2017)
Quote: The spirit of youth and the thirst for knowledge are palpable in Júlia ist, which was written by four screenwriters – the director herself,– Pol Rebaque (also director of photography), Marta...
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Pere Portabella – Nocturno 29 AKA Nocturne 29 (1968)
Synopsis Portabella’s first feature, co-scripted by poet Joan Brossa, became one of the most influential works of the Barcelona avant-garde, although like all his early films, it circulated only in an...
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Marta Grimalt – Desierto en tu mente AKA Desert in Your Mind (2017)
Desert in your mind is the first feature movie directed, written and produced by Marta Grimalt Canals. This surrealistic road movie is filmed in super 8 bw around California, Barcelona and Mallorca....
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Pedro Almodóvar – Hable con ella AKA Talk to Her (2002)
Quote: The closing act of the New York Film Festival, and one of the season’s most rewarding films, Talk to Her strikes a variety of chords: It’s uproarious, whimsical, sad, preposterous–sometimes...
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Carlos Saura – La madriguera AKA Honeycomb (1969)
This is a curious and little-known film from Saura’s best period. Co-scripted by Rafael Azcona, the film is virtually a two-hander about a husband and wife (Per Oscarsson and Geraldine Chaplin)...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Kika (1993)
Quote: Harshly treated by the critics on release, of Pedro Almodovar’s work, Kika is perhaps the one that most benefits from re-viewing and re-assessment. The story of Kika (an astonishing Veronica...
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Jaime Rosales – Sueño y silencio AKA Dream and Silence (2012)
Quote: Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. He is an architect, she is a teacher. An accident while on holidays in the Ebro Delta changes their lives....
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Antonio Mercero – La cabina AKA The Telephone Box (1972)
Synopsis: ‘A man gets trapped inside a telephone box. Onlookers unsuccessfully try to free him. Then the men from the telephone company arrive, but relief turns into puzzlement, then horror, as it...
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Marco Ferreri – El Cochecito aka The Little Coach (1960)
Description: ALL Don Anselmo wants is a motorized wheelchair. The problem is that there’s nothing wrong with his legs, and his prosperous but parsimonious son, the lawyer, refuses to indulge him. The...
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Pere Portabella – Umbracle (1970)
Synopsis: As in Vampir-Cuadecuc, this film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of the Franco...
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Roman Polanski – The Ninth Gate (1999)
Plot : Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is a New York City rare-book dealer motivated solely by financial gain. Wealthy book collector Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) hires Corso to authenticate his recently...
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Juan Antonio Bardem – Calle Mayor AKA Main Street (1956)
Quote: The Spanish Civil War has been considered one of the most horrendous events in the recent European history and has been depicted by a plethora of writers, philosophers and artists – Hemingway,...
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Tony Gatlif – Canta, gitano (1982)
One of the unknown Gatlif movies, a short one. Best Short Film – Fiction (Meilleur court métrage de fiction)- Cesar 1983 Gatlif plays himself in this one…pretty nice to see the guy that made Vengo...
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Christophe Farnarier – El somni AKA A dream (2008)
SYNOPSIS: Man has shepherded his flock since the beginning of time, so long in fact that the nomadic shepherd has become part of our collective consciousness. Joan Pipa is the last in the line of a...
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Víctor Erice – El Espíritu de la colmena aka The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Plot Synopsis [AMG] Widely regarded as a masterpiece of Spanish cinema, this allegorical tale is set in a remote village in the 1940s. The life in the village is calm and uneventful — an allegory of...
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Myriam Mézières & Alain Tanner – Fleurs de sang AKA Flowers of Blood (2002)
Again, it is a portrait of a woman and it gives us another glimpse of an exceptional figure. Mézières comes across as an outstanding actress, offering her body and her sufferings with a rare and...
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